Light-Induced Dynamical Control of Quantum Materials: Light control of electrons and spin

Presentations

• Ultrafast X-ray spectroscopy of light-engineered quantum materials

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  March 19, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Publication: [1] M. Mitrano, S. Johnston, Y.-J. Kim, & M. P. M. Dean. Exploring quantum materials with resonant inelastic X-ray scattering. Phys. Rev. X 14, 040501 (2024)
  
  [2] D. R. Baykusheva, H. Jang, A. A. Husain, S. Lee, S. F. R. TenHuisen, P. Zhou, S. Park, H. Kim, J.-K. Kim, H.-D. Kim, M. Kim, S.-Y. Park, P. Abbamonte, B. J. Kim, G. D. Gu, Y. Wang, & M. Mitrano. Ultrafast renormalization of the on-site Coulomb repulsion in a cuprate superconductor. Phys. Rev. X 12, 011013 (2022).
  
  [3] H. Padma, F. Glerean, S. F. R. TenHuisen, Z. Shen, H. Wang, L. Xu, J. D. Elliott, C. C. Homes, E. Skoropata, H. Ueda, B. Liu, E. Paris, A. Romaguera, B. Lee, W. He, Y. Wang, S. H. Lee, H. Choi, S.-Y. Park, Z. Mao, M. Calandra, H. Jang, E. Razzoli, M. P. M. Dean, Y. Wang, & M. Mitrano. Symmetry-protected electronic metastability in an optically driven cuprate ladder. Nat. Mater. 24, 1584–1591 (2025)
  
  [4] H. Padma, P. Sharma, S. Kundu, S. F. R. TenHuisen, F. Glerean, A. Roll, A. Romaguera, E. Skoropata, H. Ueda, B. Liu, E. Paris, Y. Wang, S. H. Lee, Z. Mao, E. Razzoli, M. P. M. Dean, E. Huang, Y. Wang, & M. Mitrano. A light-induced charge order mode in a metastable cuprate ladder. submitted (2025).
  
  [5] A. K. Jones, S. F. R. TenHuisen, D. Baykusheva, F. Glerean, P. B. M. de Oliveira, H. Padma, Z. Guan, T. Meng, T. C. Asmara, B. Lee, D. Jost, L. Shen, G. Coslovich, A. Mehta, E. Skoropata, H. Ueda, B. Liu, E. Paris, A. Romaguera, S. Parchenko, G. Mercurio, L. Le Guyader, B. van Kuiken, G. Dakovski, E. Razzoli, H. Jang, A. Scherz, Y. Wang, M. P. M. Dean, & M. Mitrano. Lighting up a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid. forthcoming (2025).

  Presenters

  • Matteo Mitrano

    • Harvard University

  Authors

  • Matteo Mitrano

    • Harvard University

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• Performance and First Science Results from the qRIXS Instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source 

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Lingjia Shen

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  Authors

  • Lingjia Shen

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Daniel Jost

    • Stanford University

  • Giacomo Coslovich

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Choongwon Seo

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Frank O'Dowd

  • Quentin Yougoubare

  • Patrick Oppermann

  • Raybel Almeida

  • Kayla Ninh

  • Joshua Turner

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Jake Koralek

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Apurva Mehta

    • SLAC National Laboratory

  • Georgi Dakovski

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Mina Bionta

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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• Abstract Withdrawn

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  March 19, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:30 PM

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• Understanding resonantly enhanced light-induced superconductivity in K₃C₆₀

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Michael Sentef

    • University of Bremen

  Authors

  • Michael Sentef

    • University of Bremen

  • Joseph Tindall

    • Simons Foundation (Flatiron Institute)

  • Juan Aranzadi

  • Paul Fadler

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• Dynamical regimes of a periodically driven metal and its photoinduced Meissner effect

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Oriana Diessel

    • Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

  Authors

  • Oriana Diessel

    • Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

  • Subir Sachdev

    • Harvard University

  • Pietro Bonetti

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• Creating and switching magnetic order with circularly-polarized phonons

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  March 19, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Carl Davies

    • HFML-FELIX

  Authors

  • Carl Davies

    • HFML-FELIX

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• Dissipative Structure in Driven Spin-Phonon Systems.

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Brayan Eraso-Solarte

    • University of Delaware

  Authors

  • Brayan Eraso-Solarte

    • University of Delaware

  • Yafei Ren

    • University of Delaware

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• Abstract Withdrawn

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  March 19, 2026, 5:42 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:54 PM

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• Electric-field-induced wavefunction delocalization of singular flat bands via Landau-Zener tunneling

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 5:54 PM – March 19, 2026, 6:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Xuanyu Long

    • University of Utah

  Authors

  • Xuanyu Long

    • University of Utah

  • Feng Liu

    • University of Utah

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• Nonadiabatic Origin of Quantum-Metric Effects in Bloch Electron Dynamics: Nonadiabatic Metric and Analogue Gravity

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 6:06 PM – March 19, 2026, 6:18 PM

  Publication: Y Ren, arXiv:2506.06439
  Y Ren, ME Barrero, arXiv:2509.00166

  Presenters

  • Yafei Ren

    • University of Delaware

  Authors

  • Yafei Ren

    • University of Delaware

  • M. E. Sanchez Barrero

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• Magnetic-Field Modulation of Polarized Thermal Emissivity in Magnetized Spin Systems: A Bloch-Model Approach

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 6:18 PM – March 19, 2026, 6:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Sina Khayam

    • UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN

  Authors

  • Sina Khayam

    • UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN

  • Viktor Rindert

  • UFUK KILIC

    • University of Nebraska - Lincoln

  • Mathias Schubert

    • University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  • Vanya Darakchieva

    • Lund University

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